future day spa

WRITER

In 2015, The Future Day Spa, a collaboration with Qualcomm, was brought to LA's re/code conference as an experiential installation in which participants lay in mylar space blanket vacuum pressure chambers. The purpose of the installation was to test the physiological effects - and benefits - of such a treatment, which included increased blood flow and deep relaxation. After the event, the installation was used to create a short film that pondered the future of such a technology, and the plausibility of its creator's (Lucy McRae) original intention: to prepare the human body for space travel.